A Stone-Breaking Chant
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
DAWN, on Tuesday last week, in Tanjungkerta village, Tasikmalaya regency. The sound of roosters crowing could still be heard, yet numerous activities had been going on at the Abah Anom Islamic Boarding School in Suryalaya for more than three hours. They were students at the Nurul Asror Mosque.
Kiai Sandisi is a murshid, which means a man of learning, a term used for a Sufi teacher. The students, said Sandisi, were involved in talqin, which mean
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